Bunnie Xo Vows to “Never Speak” to Jelly Roll Again
But all that free will came with a caveat: “Don’t f–king lie to me,” stressed Bunnie, “or ever let me be the last to know something.”
And she was certain there was something going on with Jelly Roll and his former paramour. “For a year, this girl tormented me online,” she detailed. “She would quote his song lyrics, she would post pictures wearing his merch, she would take cheap shots at me in her captions because she knew I was onto her. I just couldn’t prove it.”
When she brought the posts up to Jelly Roll, said Bunnie, “he would gaslight the s–t out of me and make me feel crazy for doubting him.”
An attempt at couples’ therapy went awry and “the fighting and suspicion went on for ten months,” wrote Bunnie, “until s–t finally hit the proverbial fan and splattered all over the place.”
Soon after, she returned from a trip to discover her husband had fully moved out of their Nashville home. And a chat with his best friend’s wife confirmed her worst suspicions.
“That night I contemplated taking my life,” Bunnie revealed. “The pain was so intense that I genuinely just wanted to end it all.”
Instead, she hit the road, discovering on her drive back to Vegas that Jelly Roll had announced their split on Instagram, despite promising to wait several months.
“After all the confusion, all the arguments, all the heartbreak—that was the last straw for me with J,” Bunnie wrote. “I vowed never to speak to him again.”
Jason Kempin/Getty ImagesHow Bunnie Xo Learned About Jelly Roll’s Affair
But, of course, the two are in it ’til the wheels fall off. And so she listened when he made up a story “about a drug dealer’s daughter he met at a bar,” noted Bunnie. “And I believed him.”
Until a random number began blowing up his phone.
“It hit me,” Bunnie shared. “It was her. The ex-fling was still in the damn picture, even if he’d sworn up and down that they were done.”
Her trust in Jelly Roll demolished, she reached out to his affair partner for the full story.
“She told me about how he got a house for them to live in and he wanted her to stay at home and take care of Bailee,” Bunnie detailed of what she learned about the 10-month romance. “And out of everything, that’s what made me sick. It wasn’t about him f–king this broad—it was about emotionally cheating and then wanting her to play mommy to a little girl I’d fallen in love with.”
Though she eventually forgave Jelly Roll, “When a man puts you through something like that, you never stop loving them, you just love them differently,” Bunnie explained. “Your heart is more guarded. Less trusting. Cracked.”
As such, “I’m not going to pretend that we just went back to normal,” Bunnie stressed. Some of the fights that ensued got ugly, with Bunnie copping to punching Jelly Roll in the back when he said he didn’t regret what he’d done.
“It would take years for me to put the affair aside,” she wrote. “It would take years to actually feel like this man loved me— that I wasn’t disposable.”
Amy Sussman / Staff / GETTY IMAGESBunnie Xo and Jelly Roll’s Plan to Have Twins
Now nearly seven years into the pair’s fertility journey, the pieces are starting to come together.
“I learned then that my Fallopian tubes were blocked and I would need surgery and that still wouldn’t guarantee I’d be able to carry a baby,” Bunnie explained. “But with how much IVF has advanced over the years, and with the help of the most unselfish woman willing to carry twins for us, we’ll be able to make our baby dreams come true.”
Their plan is to use her eggs and his sperm and try for twins.
“Some people frown upon our decision to bring babies into this world at our age, and I could give a f–k,” wrote Bunnie.” We’re going to raise these babies in love and give them everything we were never given. I can’t wait to see a piece of me and him running around outside of our bodies.”
